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who laid the rail

who laid the rail
 adv. phr.— «The way we glibly toss the word, pastern, at you, you’d think we were and old pastern man from who laid the rail.» —“Sports Roundup” by Joe Williams Syracuse Herald-Journal (New York) July 27, 1940. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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